Humming-bird
E1002663
"Humming-bird" is a vivid, imagistic poem by D. H. Lawrence that explores the almost prehistoric mystery and delicate power of the tiny bird.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Humming-bird canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T12774418 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Humming-bird Context triple: [Birds, Beasts and Flowers, notablePoem, Humming-bird]
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A.
Hummingbird
Hummingbird is a 2013 British action thriller film written and directed by Steven Knight, starring Jason Statham as a troubled ex-soldier navigating London’s criminal underworld.
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B.
Hummingbird
The Hummingbird is a renowned Gibson acoustic guitar model known for its square-shouldered dreadnought body, ornate pickguard, and rich, balanced tone favored by many singer-songwriters.
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C.
Hummingbird
Hummingbird is the Google search algorithm update introduced to better understand user intent and the meaning of entire queries rather than just matching individual keywords.
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D.
Sunbird
"Sunbird" is a fantasy short story by Neil Gaiman that blends myth, humor, and metafiction as members of an epicurean club pursue the legendary, possibly immortal bird of the title.
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E.
Sunbird
Sunbird is the athletic mascot representing Fresno Pacific University’s sports teams.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Humming-bird Target entity description: "Humming-bird" is a vivid, imagistic poem by D. H. Lawrence that explores the almost prehistoric mystery and delicate power of the tiny bird.
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A.
Hummingbird
Hummingbird is a 2013 British action thriller film written and directed by Steven Knight, starring Jason Statham as a troubled ex-soldier navigating London’s criminal underworld.
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B.
Hummingbird
The Hummingbird is a renowned Gibson acoustic guitar model known for its square-shouldered dreadnought body, ornate pickguard, and rich, balanced tone favored by many singer-songwriters.
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C.
Hummingbird
Hummingbird is the Google search algorithm update introduced to better understand user intent and the meaning of entire queries rather than just matching individual keywords.
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D.
Sunbird
"Sunbird" is a fantasy short story by Neil Gaiman that blends myth, humor, and metafiction as members of an epicurean club pursue the legendary, possibly immortal bird of the title.
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E.
Sunbird
Sunbird is the athletic mascot representing Fresno Pacific University’s sports teams.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
literaryWork
ⓘ
poem ⓘ |
| author | D. H. Lawrence ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| creatorNationality | English ⓘ |
| creatorOccupation |
novelist
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poet ⓘ |
| describedAs |
imagistic
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vivid ⓘ |
| focusesOn |
ancient origins of the hummingbird
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delicate power of the hummingbird ⓘ |
| form | lyric poem ⓘ |
| genre | poetry ⓘ |
| imageryType |
natural imagery
ⓘ
prehistoric imagery ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| literaryDevice |
imagery
ⓘ
metaphor ⓘ personification ⓘ |
| literaryMovement | modernism ⓘ |
| mainSubject | hummingbird ⓘ |
| period | 20th century literature ⓘ |
| theme |
evolution
ⓘ
nature ⓘ power of small creatures ⓘ prehistoric mystery ⓘ time ⓘ |
| tone |
contemplative
ⓘ
mysterious ⓘ |
| writer | D. H. Lawrence ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.
Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: Humming-bird Description of subject: "Humming-bird" is a vivid, imagistic poem by D. H. Lawrence that explores the almost prehistoric mystery and delicate power of the tiny bird.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.